Mullineux SCHIST “Roundstone” Syrah 2022

Region: Swartland

Tasting note:

“Red and black berries, rose, fynbos, cured meat, a hint of vanilla, and pepper on the nose. The palate has striking clarity and balance – excellent fruit definition and fresh acidity while the tannins are super-fine but definitely present, the finish long and very dry. All of a piece, this glides across the mouth. Alc: 14%.” – CE 98pts

“The production quantity of the Schist 2022 was closer to the long-term average with 482 cases produced. The aromatics are wonderfully seductive and sophisticated, showing complex red and black berry fruit notes, violets, rose petals, fynbos, white pepper, before subtle hints of salted caramel, black berry compote and vanilla pod spice. Often a wine that is very showy in its youth, this 2022 has a certain purity, elegance, and classicism to it, but as Chris points out, also “a certain appealing Rhoney wildness that you don’t always find on the Schist”. An incredibly balanced and complete wine, there are complex notes of fynbos, garrigue, dried herbs, black berries, cured meats, and black peppercorns tempered with a seductively generous vanilla pod spice. This wine is a pyramid of elegance, power, and precision, with its massive textural stone construction blocks just slotting into one another that little bit more tightly and more precisely than with the Granite or Iron cuvees, revealing an architecturally detailed wine with a very impressive fruit-acid balance, flavour purity, and a notable palate intensity. A very serious and accomplished benchmark effort for the vintage.” – Greg Sherwood MW 98pts